| Show WHOLESALE FORGERY Elaborate Scheme Broken Up to Sell Fraudulent Railway Bonds New York Feb the tle re arrest of Samuel J Humphre S and the arrest of Douglas E Smith tonIght on the eve of the day when Charles A Seton is to be d for swindling a Texas railway the notorious Norfolk Western railway forgeries are be to have been cleared up Mystery was thrown around the case caseby caseby by the detectives s Humphreys himself said he had been to go to the Tombs and keep his mouth shut Smith has not appeared In the case before but there was a mysterious EL E EL L Green for whom the police have been searching Humphreys was sent back to the Tombs on a charge of breaking his parole while Smith was holed on a short affidavit charging him with complicity In the swindles Only the sharp eye of a clerk of a trust company prevented perhaps the largest swindle forgery ever attempted In this country The swindlers through a forged letter purporting to come from the president of the Norfolk Western railway obtained from a reputable l n ji graving company a of the Norfolk Western certificates except that they used railroad for rail railway railway way They contemplated selling some and hypothecating others f for r loans They would have netted nearly If successful but only realized before captured |
